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Subject:Re: Big Doc Word From:Jo Francis Byrd <jbyrd -at- byrdwrites -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Mon, 19 Mar 2001 14:36:20 -0600
I sure hope the company pays you enough to compensate for you providing the
software for them! To my thinking (not that I have an opinion, or anything....),
when you provide your own tools for your employer, whether you are a permanent
employee or a contract employee working on site (contract working at home is an
entirely different issue, I'm talking about doing the employer's work on site),
you give them NO incentive to provide you with decent tools to do the job. Why
should they put out the money when they've got someone else to do it for them?
There are such things as consequences. If a client (employer) won't provide me
with the tools I need to do the job efficiently and well they'll have to live
with the problems caused by the short-sightedness. And, yes, I do the CYA
documentation to demonstrate it is not MY fault, but the fault of inadequate
tools!
Jo Byrd
david -dot- locke -at- amd -dot- com wrote:
> I didn't mean free. I mean you get MS Office without thinking about it most of
> the time, so the component applications are essentially free as in no more
> outlay.
>
> I never had to convince the boss to buy MS Word. He wouldn't have. Just like
> he didn't see the need for FrameMaker either.
>
> I paid for my copy of Office--the upgrade from MS Works that came on the
> machine. How else would I have the CD, but .... No, I pay for my tools.
IPCC 01, the IEEE International Professional Communication Conference,
October 24-27, 2001 at historic La Fonda in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA.
CALL FOR PAPERS OPEN UNTIL MARCH 15. http://ieeepcs.org/2001/
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